Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [art] [adj] scale " in BNC.
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| 1 | While non-verbal communication of the kinds described above have a powerful role in underlining , reinforcing or betraying our feelings and aspirations , the moment we try to communicate on a wider scale than inter-personal , we must look at other sign systems to convey meaning . |
| 2 | ‘ Buying paper in rolls in economical and , because I like to work on a large scale , provides greater potential for expression . |
| 3 | There are many clues in the course of data analysis that suggest that it might be better to work on a transformed scale . |
| 4 | The process is known as convection , and it is widely , but not universally , believed to work on a huge scale in the mantle . |
| 5 | They needed a device able to scan lumps of rocks and pick out those worth processing at a rate that would make it possible to work on the huge scale required to make extraction from low-grade ores economical . |
| 6 | On reflection , it may be the only possible solution if the city is to function on a human scale . |
| 7 | It seemed clear that the Franks were a power in Europe that the Eastern Empire did not dare to challenge on a large scale . |
| 8 | He also obtained the ends of newspaper rolls from Peckham Press , at a time when cartridge paper was rationed , and encouraged his pupils to draw on a large scale . |
| 9 | Perhaps we could instigate a national drive to recycle on a grand scale — from restaurants , BR etc — and sell them as a peat alternative ! |
| 10 | In short , it does on a small scale what America wants the World Bank to do on a bigger scale . |
| 11 | Those now providing voluntary humanitarian relief are merely doing of their own free will and on a small scale what we hope citizens of the rich nations will as soon as possible compel their states to do on a massive scale . ’ |
| 12 | GRAND PLANS : the Belgian colony , which Conrad dubbed the Heart of Darkness , gave King Leopold II the resources to build on a colossal scale . |
| 13 | Yet , with only a slowly emerging technical understanding of how to build on the large scale in durable materials and with immense difficulties of transport , lack of communications and inadequacy of power , vast buildings were erected and these cathedrals and churches of Romanesque Europe still stand as testimony to the determination of man when his spirit is sufficiently aroused . |
| 14 | And so those architects who remember the Third Reich are fearful of the politician 's desire to build on an imperial scale . |
| 15 | UK deregulation meant that the smaller , traditional banks suddenly had to compete on a global scale , and very few had the financial power necessary . |
| 16 | Even in ideal cereal-growing country the sale of grain in the open market for milling or feeding is unlikely to be worthwhile for a smallholder who could not produce enough to compete on an adequate scale . |
| 17 | They are labour intensive , however , and complex to perform on a large scale , for example , in clinical regimens . |
| 18 | The Portrait of Nevile Wallis instances Minton 's decision , made earlier that year , to paint on a large scale . |
| 19 | The removal of exchange controls allowed diversification of portfolios to continue on an international scale , and it should be recognised that the increasing globalisation of markets through deregulation and liberalisation also contributed to the growth in holdings of overseas securities . |
| 20 | I guess your exterminatus decision was really what clinched my respect for your ability to think on a grand scale , Jaq . |
| 21 | It was probably intended to rebuild on a grander scale with an additional floor , but the work was curtailed , and the extra floor not added . |
| 22 | Europeans are not used to change on a major scale . |
| 23 | It was when power reached the cotton , woollen , and iron industries that the face of the country really began to change on a large scale , and that was not until the 1770s . |
| 24 | Hence , there is little that is surprising , in my view , in the fact that when movements for popular sovereignty and democracy began to develop on a large scale among colonial and dependent peoples , in the course of the twentieth century , they should have taken as their political model the established nation states , and have become strongly infused with nationalism . |
| 25 | In the older nation states , after the war , fascist parties disappeared ( although they have begun to re-emerge on a small scale in recent years ) , regional and nationalist parties have been formed within existing states , there has been a succession of new political parties ( and destruction of them by military intervention ) in Latin America , while in some European countries there has been a revival of liberal and ‘ centre ’ parties and the emergence of ‘ green ’ parties . |
| 26 | Now her parents had come home for good , and had taken a beautiful house in Buckinghamshire , where Mrs Grant meant to entertain on a large scale . |
| 27 | But it is certainly the object of quantum mechanical discourse and , for all the peculiarity of its collapse , its subtle essence may be the form that reality has to take on the atomic scale and below . |
| 28 | This is only likely to happen on a large scale if an institution is failing to achieve a good return on the capital invested . |
| 29 | I propose to broadcast on a world-wide scale , a message to the good folk of this fair planet . ’ |
| 30 | Despite the damage , the Tomsk-7 plant is continuing to operate on a reduced scale . |